I am excited about all that is going on with us and our cute little cottage! I am most pleased to announce the opening of our brand new Happy Hormone Cottage in Crestview Hills, Kentucky. We are opening an office there by popular demand! We have been asked for the past 2 years to "please come to Kentucky!" so we're there! We are right across from Thomas More College and near St. Elizabeth Hospital. For those of us who like to shop (ahem!) we are 2 minutes from the awesome Crestview Hills shopping area. I am enjoying getting to explore the area and getting to know the people! We are making this office its own entity, with its own "command center" and phone number. You can check out this information AND location on my website's "Locations and Hours" section in the next week. There is even a map for those of us who are directionally challenged! (that would be me!). We plan to be open by the end of October.

I've learned an awful lot about women over the past 2 years. Of course, actually being one (!) helps! What I have learned is that almost every woman I meet wants the SAME 3 THINGS:

• to lose weight
• to sleep
• to have libido again

We know WHY women-especially over the age of 35-aren't sleeping. And it gets worse the older we get. Progesterone is the hormone we begin to lose around the age of 35, because as we age, our hormone levels deplete. So replacing them is critical. When our progesterone begins to wane, our sleep is impacted, as well as mood, depression and anxiety, aches and pains, sugar cravings and our risk of breast cancer all increase. So by replacing this depleted progesterone level with natural progesterone helps us in all of these areas. So women ARE SLEEPING again. They no longer need sleeping aids! I find it fascinating when a 40 year old woman goes to her doctor with issues of sleeplessness, depression and anxiety and they invariably walk out of their doctor's office with a prescription for Prozac®. My husband would say, "Are you Prozac® deficient?" Think about that for a second! I don't think any of us are Prozac® deficient!

So, now that we can and are fixing our women's sleeping issues and a rested woman has libido again (once we fix her adrenal fatigue by healing her exhausted adrenal glands), we can address the weight loss issue. I am SO excited to be able to report that we have developed a weight loss program that is giving us good results. Our women are losing weight! THIS is good news and very exciting! So what's the deal? Step 1 is we have to get our hormone levels balanced. Why? Because estrogen is a FAT-STORER and women over 35, with their waning progesterone levels, are estrogen dominant; so the estrogen holds the fat in the body. Compound estrogen dominance with adrenal fatigue, which can negatively impact the thyroid to make it sluggish....well, losing weight, even when dieting and exercising, isn't happening. So once we get our clients hormonally balanced, sleeping again, energy comes back...and now the weight loss can happen! It ALL begins with education. Having been a teacher for 30 years, I can tell you the definition of learning. Learning is a change in behavior. So when we educate our women on WHY they can't lose weight and then introduce the educational piece on HOW to lose weight, that's the starting point.

The most amazing thing to me is that the way we have been taught to eat is totally wrong. The way we have tried to lose weight and keep it off, hasn't worked. By teaching our clients and engaging them in the science of THEIR bodies, and having them commit to the task at hand, we are seeing good results. The goal is a change in behavior and a relearning about how their bodies use the fuel we feed it, and we go from there. Jeff RPh and Jess RN meet with existing HHC clients at NO CHARGE and only $50 for new clients to get them up to speed on this new program. Call us at 513-444-6343 to make your appointment today.

I've been very busy speaking with women across the tri-state area this past month, and have spoken to WIN (Women in Business Networking) groups, church groups, and presented Happy Hormone Hours. We officially celebrated our 2 year anniversary in the Heart of Centerville with other favorite area shop owners (Joli, Pieces of Style, LaShoe and Unique Celebrations) by hosting a CougarTown event that was a lot of fun! We love getting together with our women and encouraging them to take an hour or two for themselves. Our next event is a fun Girls' Night Out in West Chester with representatives from Silpada®, Energized Wellness, Laga® handbags, massage therapy, chiropractic care and more. Come join us on Wednesday, October 19, 5:30-8:30 at the Huff Realty Community Room on Muhlhauser Road in West Chester. It is free, food will be served and there will be great giveaways and a chance to "try and buy!" This also gives us a chance to present our new skin care line-"Rx Skin Therapy," that I discovered in June when I was in Washington, DC and have had amazing results with it in just 8 weeks! Rx Skin Therapy was created by a woman compounding pharmacist and uses pharmaceutical grade ingredients. You know, there are only 5-6 ingredients that one can put in skin care, so to use the highest percentage of ingredients that can be used before it has to have a prescription is awesome. This skin care system also comes with a skin analysis machine that detects client's troubled facial areas, so we can target areas of improvement. I decided everyone uses skin care of some sort: facial cleansers, scrubs, moisturizers, etc. so why not use something that really works and is not expensive? My favorite part of our new skin care line is our Firming Serum and our Retinol. Using that, along with the glycolic peel, has yielded great results. We have a big poster in our Mason office of "Before and After" with just 8 weeks of use, and our clients who are trying it are having the same results. Schedule your appointment by calling us at our Mason office at 513-795-2227 for your free skin analysis AND sample pack of products. This new skin care line has products for all skin types, including my favorite anti-aging formula! Try it! You WILL notice the difference!

We will keep doing what we are doing to educate women and let them know that the standard of care in our country today, especially in this area of women's health, does not have our best interests at heart. It is not proactive, does NOT replenish women's depleted hormone levels that deplete with age, does not help prevent disease, nor does it treat the whole woman. The bottom line is that women aren't better. Listen, if women were better with the path their doctor has them on, then we wouldn't be so busy and we most certainly would not have opened 7 offices in the past 2 years! When I have a woman call me and tell me their doctor put her 3 year old daughter on Premarin® (synthetic conjugated estrogen), I know we can't stop doing what we are doing! When doctors are putting estrogen patches on women, without checking hormone levels first, and these women are already estrogen dominant, we are going to keep doing what we are doing. As Oprah says, "When we know better, we DO better."

Until next time, have a great month!

Best,

Lyn